Cairoscene Quotes & Sayings

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic). — Gish Jen

It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to interrupt our prayer or to sadden our brother by refusing to answer him. But love is greater than prayer. Prayer is one virtue among others, whereas love contains them all. — John Climacus

A story might help you get through your life, he said, but it doesn't literally keep you alive -- if anything, most often people who have power turn their story into a brick wall keeping out somebody else's truth, so that they can continue the life they believe themselves to be leading, trying somehow to preserve the idea that they're good people in their small lives, despite their involvement, however indirect, with bigger evils. — James Hannaham

However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free. — Thomas Sowell

Hrun the Barbarian, who was practilly an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips. — Terry Pratchett

But it bothers you. It pisse you off that I'm not crippled with debt or saddled with some moody bitch. Instead, you PR your lives and act like I'm supposed to ency you ... — Adam Neville

High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere. — Antonio Gates

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career. — Chris Rock

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery. — Adam Smith

His physical body, this physical body was not - could not be - in the past. But gravity could. Like Tars said, gravity cut across and through all of the dimensions. When he punched at one of them, what he was really doing was sending a pulse through space-time, a gravitic surge that was responsible for moving the books. — Greg Keyes

No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind. — Abhijit Naskar

My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay. — Alexander The Great

You must walk in the very spacious places under the infinite skies to realize how small you are! This is the first step to start being big! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. — Monica Crowley

The only safe thing is to take a chance. — Elaine May